Decent no frills park. Good interpretative content. Decent trails. Stone art is interesting from…read morehistorical perspective, but visually quite underwhelming. Not a destination but worth a stop if in area.

An excellent state park & visitor center. Short scenic hike through eroded columns of rock…read more(hoo-doos). Also Native American petroglyphs. Informative, particularly in regards to the culture of various Blackfoot tribes. Very worth a day visit.

Site Rates (not including GST): No Power: $15*…read morePower Only: $20* Power & Water: $20* Power, Water & Sewer: $25* Tenting: $10* *Rates subject to change. Please call to confirm. Campground Description: Open year round - 40 sites to choose from with FREE WI-FI, wide range of service sites from pull-through full service sites to tenting sites. General sewer dumping station. Shower and washroom facility. Fire pits, picnic shelter, walking distance from the golf course, down town & travel information centre, pet friendly. Home of the 8 flags centennial cairn and adjacent to Milk River just off Highway 4. I thought this was a pretty good place to stay and quite inexpensive. Our tent site was right next to the river. And the campground manager even brought us some free firewood. The only complaint I had was the amount of traffic on the highway going through the border crossing to the south. It is however located right next to the towns golf course. And there is a reasonably sized grocery store in the town.

Nice view, nice trees, friendly, and free showers, but too much $ for camping. Should be $40/d for…read morepwr.

This CG is a hidden gem! Can accommodate Big Rigs, RV's and tents. Lots of trees (shade!) and…read moregrass. Clean restrooms and showers. Has full hookups, electric and water, electric only and dry camping. Run by the city of Medicine Hat.

Cypress Hills Interprovincial Park is an interprovincial park straddling the southern…read moreAlberta-Saskatchewan border, located southeast of Medicine Hat. The Cypress Hills rises up above the surrounding prairie, to a maximum elevation of 4,816 ft, making it Canada's highest point between the Canadian Rockies and the Labrador peninsula and also the highest point in Saskatchewan (!!!). The transition is somewhat sudden. One minute you're in prairie and the next mile you feel that you're in the mountains! I saw extensive forest, interesting grasslands and flowers, and breathtaking scenery. I'm told that most of the flora here is shared with the mountains in states such as Montana and Wyoming rather than with the rest of Canada. My friend Jim and I decided one day to drive out here after work (from Medicine Hat) and drive around. Jim had previously taken is Boy Scout troup out here for backpacking trips. I wanted to take a look at this beautifull park and also set food in Saskatchewan for the first time. So we drove around admiring the scenery and chatting about work issues and Canadian politics (I'm known in some circles as a closet Canadian). Our plan was to drive into the Saskatchewan section of the park and then back up to the Trans Canada Highway. But soon paved road turned to gravel, then to mud and before we knew it we were stuck in spring mud! We finally got ourselves out and turned around, but not before being caked (head to toe) with mud. Later at a local car wash, it took about 10 dollars worth of quarters to clean the mud from the wheel wells and other parts of the car. As a person who grew up in the Midwest, I should have known better! I would love to come back here and enjoy this jewell of a park again in a more deliberate fashion. I'd hike, I'd swim, and maybe I'd camp. I would also explore some of the history that was made here. For example, The Cypress Hills Massacre, a key event in Canadian History leading to the creation of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) occurred in the Hills when a group of American wolvers from Montana massacred an Assiniboine encampment. Nearby Fort Walsh was established to bring law and order to the Canadian border region.

It's a nice, hilly, and forested area in the middle of the flat and desolate prairies. With…read moreElkwater Lake nearby and Fort Walsh for your history comforts, what's not to like about this place? You literally go from the flat, brown prairies to this hilly area with lots of trees and amazing scenery. Definitely a place to check out if you're in the area.